Section 2(1) in The Bengal Agricultural Income-Tax Act, 1944
(1)"agricultural income" means-(a)[ any rent or revenue derived from land which is situated in West Bengal and is used for agricultural purposes] [Substituted by W.B. Act 22 of 1977 w.e.f. 1.4.77.];(b)any income derived from such land by-(i)agriculture, or(ii)the performance by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of any process ordinarily employed by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind to render the produce raised or received by him fit to be taken to market, or(iii)the sale by a cultivator or receiver of rent-in-kind of the produce raised or received by him, in respect of which no process has been performed other than a process of the nature described in item (ii);(c)any income derived from any building owned and occupied by the receiver of the rent or revenue of any such land, or occupied by the cultivator, or the receiver of rent-in-kind of any land with respect to which, or the produce of which, any operation mentioned in items (ii) and (iii) of sub-clause (b) is carried on :[Provided that] [This proviso was substituted by W.B. Act 22 of 1977 w.e.f. 1.4.77.]-(i)the building is on or in the immediate vicinity of the land, and is a building which the receiver of the rent or revenue or the cultivator or the receiver of the rent-in-kind by reason of his connection with the land, requires as a dwelling house, or as a store-house or other out-building, and(ii)the land is either assessed to land revenue or is subject to a local rate assessed and collected by officers of the Government as such or where the land is not so assessed to land revenue or subject to a local rate, it is not situated-(A)in any area which is comprised within the jurisdiction of a municipality (whether known as a municipality, municipal corporation, notified area committee, town area committee, town committee or by any other name) or a cantonment board and which has a population of not less than ten thousand according to the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published before the first day of the previous year; or(B)in any area within such distance, not being more than eight kilometres, from the local limits of any municipality or cantonment board referred to in item (A), as may be specified by the Central Government [under the enactments relating to Indian income-tax;] [Words substituted by W.B. Act 18 of 1989.]
